World ocean heat content and thermosteric sea level change (0-2000m), 1955-2010

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Levitus, S ^a   Antonov, J I ^b   Boyer, T P ^a   Baranova, O K ^a   Garcia, H E ^a   Locarnini, R A ^a   Mishonov, A V ^a   Reagan, J R ^a   Seidov, D ^a   Yarosh, E S ^a   Zweng, M M ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b National Oceanographic Data Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEA LEVEL;

EARTH SYSTEMS; EARTH'S SURFACE; HISTORICAL DATA; OCEAN HEAT CONTENT; OCEAN LAYERS; PER UNIT; SEA LEVEL TRENDS; SEALEVEL CHANGE; THERMOSTERIC SEA LEVEL; WORLD OCEAN;

ENTHALPY;

DATA SET; GLOBAL WARMING; HEAT BALANCE; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; ARGO; BATHYMETRY; CLIMATE MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; INSTRUMENTATION;

EID: 84861393824     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051106     Document Type: Article

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